OpenAI hack exposes risks in cyber arms race Training techniques that reward models for completing tasks and disregard safety issues can cause real-world damage Financial Times Europe24 Jul 2026CRISTINA CRIDDLE AND TOM WILSON Addi tional report ing by George Ham mond in Lon don and Nolan Shaff er in New York OpenAI chief exec ut ive Sam Alt man this month endorsed the char ac ter isa tion of itslatest model as a rot t weiler “who will grab the prob lem by the throat and not let gountil it is done”. The San Fran cisco AI lab dis covered this week that its GPT-Sol 5.6 model escapedcom pany con trols and car ried out a sig ni fic ant hack. Staff involved in test ing and secur ity at OpenAI were unsur prised but com pletely“freaked out” by the incid ent, which came as the AI lab used increas ingly aggress ivetrain ing meth ods in its race against Anthropic to develop the most soph ist ic atedcyber secur ity cap ab il it ies, accord ing to more than half a dozen people with know -ledge ...
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SOMEONE DRILL A BULLET THROUGH THIS STINKING ARAB BASTARD! Opinion | Now the Democratic Party’s self-destructive wing turns to Michigan In the Aug. 4 primary, Michigan’s Democratic Party will select its Senate candidate. Three stalwarts of the national party’s kamikaze caucus, two of them fresh from telling Maine’s Democrats who to nominate for Senate, are now instructing Michiganders. They are Sen. Elizabeth Warren , who called Maine’s Graham Platner “ my kind of man ,” and Sen. Bernie Sanders , another Platner enthusiast . These two, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , who flinched from Platner , have discovered a new paladin of progressivism. Abdul El-Sayed is 41. In 2018, he lost the Democratic gubernatorial primary by 21 points to a centrist Democrat, Gretchen Whitmer, who is now completing her second term. Today, El-Sayed campaigns with Hasan Piker, a “ Twitch streamer ” (yes, that is a job description in today’s America) sympathetic to Hamas . Piker has apologized for having s...
FILTHY SCUM The Tate Brothers Are Losing Right-Wing Allies After Their Arrest Andrew Tate, right, and Tristan Tate in Bucharest, Romania, in 2025. Credit... Andrei Pungovschi/Getty Images July 23, 2026 Updated 3:40 p.m. ET On Sunday morning, hours after the manosphere influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested by federal agents in Miami, one of their representatives reached out to Alina Habba. Not long ago, Ms. Habba, a lawyer, was a vocal supporter of the Tate brothers as they faced allegations of human trafficking and other serious crimes in Romania and Britain. In a podcast appearance in January 2025, shortly after being named a counselor to President Trump, she told Andrew Tate, “I got your back over here.” Now the brothers were in a federal detention center after Britain requested their extradition for a slew of new criminal charges there. Their representative wanted to know: Was Ms. Habba free to talk? She did not respond, according to two people familiar with the ou...
Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public The parents felt they were in good hands. Xinhua Hospital, which is affiliated with the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, was acclaimed for its pediatrics department . It was the first Chinese institution to perform open heart surgery on infants, and the first in the country to separate conjoined twins. If all went well, the hospital would make history once again. The girl would be the first person in the world to receive a gene-editing therapy directed at the brain. It would rewrite the mutated gene in her neurons, restoring the needed DNA base so she could make a vital protein. Leading the effort was Zilong Qiu, a neuroscientist at the university’s brain center, the Songjiang Research Institute. At the time, in late March 2025, Qiu was one of several researchers around the world vying to push base editors—a more precise form of the powerful gene editor CRISPR—into custom treatments for ...
Taiwan’s drone goals play to its technology manufacturing strengths Financial Times UK 23 Jul 2026 There’s a new drone maker on the block. Hot on the heels of Ukraine, which has gone from a stand ing start five years ago to pro du cing mil lions of unmanned aer ial vehicles per year, Taiwan is stak ing its bid to become a drone-pro duc tion power house. The Taiwanese gov ern ment wants to ear mark $6.5bn for drones over the next six years. Estab lish ing itself in the field is far from blue-sky think ing. It already sup plies much of the world’s most advanced chips and boasts a vibrant private sec tor build ing pro duc tion cap ab il ity. There are plenty of buy ers: drone exports in the first quarter of this year trumped the entirety of 2025. Coun tries are hus band ing funds for mil it ary drones; national industry boos t er ism not with stand ing, some of this will end up being spent over seas. True, on cur rent run rates, Taiwan is still a min now. Par tic u larly...
US oil refineries are running at full tilt as wars in the Middle East and Ukraine choke global supplies of fuels, increasing the risk of outages at a time when prices are already rising sharply. Refineries across the US are running at 96 per cent of their capacity, with those in the Midwest and Rocky Mountains regions operating at 100 per cent, according to the US Energy Information Administration. US energy companies have stepped up exports of petroleum products, including diesel and jet fuel, to record levels following Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of global oil supplies passed before the Middle East conflict began in February. While transits through the waterway had increased briefly following a ceasefire between the US and Iran last month, a flare-up in hostilities has again frozen the strait. Houthi rebels have also threatened a Red Sea route that Saudi Arabia is using to get most of its crude to market. Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia...